I tried a fairly major software change on my imaging setup, but it was a failure. — I couldn’t make it work. Even worse, the tracking software several times ran the telescope into the tripod and ground the gears in the mount in a very frightening way. So I went back to the previous setup. Fortunately, the Andromeda Galaxy is now visible, and I was able to get a nice image, to prove that things were still working. Everyone has seen this a million times, but it never gets old:
Edit: here’s an improved version of the above image — more exposures, better processing. Barely noticeable at mobile device scale, but full size you can see the difference…
